Licensing

15 Jul 2014

Nottingham City Council - Late Night Levy ratified

Nottingham City Council has approved the Late Night Levy by way of full Council ratification. The consequence is that some 260 premises will be subject to the Levy if they operate beyond 00.01 with the fee becoming payable from 1 November 2014. H...

09 Jul 2014

DCMS publish responses on further deregulation of entertainment licensing

The Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS) has this morning published a summary of responses in respect of the Consultation on a proposal to use a Legislative Reform Order to make changes to entertainment licensing. In our article &lsquo...

17 Jun 2014

Scotland - 125ml Wine Measure

Further to our news item on 28th January, 2014 (link) – it is being reported that the number of premises now offering the smaller 125ml wine measure has almost doubled.  Special posters and tent cards to promote the availability of the ...

13 Jun 2014

Late Night Levy - City of London

The City of London have now confirmed the detail of how the Late Night Levy will operate going forward. The levy which will apply to all licensed premises which sell alcohol between midnight and 6am including on New Years Eve will be implemented ...

11 Jun 2014

PASS Card Goes Live

Further to our news article of 7 May 2014, we confirm that PASS was re-launched on the 10 June with the new standardised PASS card. The new scheme is supported by the Home Office, Trading Standards Institute, Security Industry Authority and ACPO. ...

21 May 2014

Prohibiting the sale of alcohol at a price below the total of duty paid plus VAT - Live from 28 May 2014

As you will probably be now aware, this new Mandatory Condition goes live on 28 May and already we are seeing councils writing to individual premises alerting them to the changes. We have previously updated on the detail for which see here - LINK...